Linux

If you don’t see your distro in the lists bellow you have two options. Either open a ticket asking for support or if you feel adventurus follow the guide how to add support for your linux distro and also consider making a PR so the community can benefit.

Wails uses cgo to bind to the native rendering engines so a number of platform dependencies are needed as well as an installation of Go. The basic requirements are:

• Go 1.12 or above
• npm

Download Go either using your system package manager or from the .

Ensure that you follow the official Go installation instructions.

Add to the PATH and on to the GO111MODULE environment variables. You can do this by adding these lines to your /etc/profile (for a system-wide installation) or $HOME/.profile:

Download npm either using your system package manager or from the . It is best to use the latest release as that is what we generally test against.

Run npm —version to verify.

For Linux, Wails uses gcc, webkit and GTK. These need to be installed using the distribution specific commands below.

Debian/Ubuntu & derivatives

Arch Linux & derivatives

sudo pacman -S gcc pkgconf webkit2gtk gtk3

Centos

Fedora

sudo yum install gcc-c++ make pkgconf-pkg-config webkit2gtk3-devel gtk3-devel

VoidLinux & VoidLinux-musl

xbps-install base-devel gtk+3-devel webkit2gtk-devel

Gentoo

sudo emerge gtk+:3 webkit-gtk

If you have successfully installed these dependencies on a different flavour of Linux, please consider clicking the “Edit this page” link at the top of the page and submit a PR.

Now you are ready to move on to the next step of installing Wails.